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Gena Corea

“Women have generally been invisible in this epidemic. And it’s part of a very old story in the history of Women’s Health care.” – Gena Corea, about Women and AIDS, 1993

Investigative reporter, author, editor, educator, healthcare advocate. A founder of the Feminist International Network on the New Reproductive Technologies. Author of The Hidden Malpractice (1977), The Mother Machine (1985) and The Invisible Epidemic: The Story of Women and AIDS (1992). Through her writing, she seeks to bring hidden things out into the open, exposing and protesting the violence against women in the fields of obstetrics, gynecology and the new reproductive technologies.

Interviewed by Jennifer Lahl, President of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, December 2022

Photo. Gena Corea, author of The Mother Machine, 1985.